Backup schedule is never accurate, causes huge backups to happen during busy hours

[ShoneA]

We set a backup to run Friday night and it started Thursday morning. This caused multiple issues. Our server has been slow all day, the load spiked to 48 just now. There is no way to cancel or stop backups. Even rebooting doesn't stop this hellish backup. It's just this evil demon ruining our server for the entire day with no way to stop it.

It shouldn't be this terrible.... this is not the first time this has happened. I've had this problem since at least early Plesk 10 and I'm using 11.5 latest MU and everything.

 

[Sven L.]

is the server time and timezone set correctly?

i always forget to set that properly on new installs until something goes wrong